Military parades and Soviet military symbolism play an important role in the 9 May celebrations across Russia. The term Отечественная война (Patriotic War or Fatherland War) was officially recognized by establishment of the Order of the Patriotic War on, awarded for heroic deeds. The invasion by Germany was called the Great Patriotic War by the Soviet government to evoke comparisons with the victory by Tsar Alexander I over Napoleon's invading army. During the Soviet period, historians engaged in what Lieven called huge distortions to make history fit with Communist ideology, with Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov and Prince Pyotr Bagration transformed into peasant generals, Alexander I alternatively ignored or vilified, and the war becoming a massive "People's War" fought by the ordinary people of Russia with almost no involvement on the part of the government. The phrase was intended to motivate the population to defend the Soviet fatherland and to expel the invader, and a reference to the Patriotic War of 1812 was seen as a great morale booster. It was found in the title of "The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet People" ( Velikaya Otechestvennaya Voyna Sovetskogo Naroda), a long article by Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, a member of Pravda editors' collegium.
The term Great Patriotic War re-appeared in the official newspaper of the CPSU, Pravda, on 23 June 1941, just a day after Germany invaded the Soviet Union. It was the name of a special war-time appendix to the magazine Theater and Life ( Театр и жизнь) in Saint Petersburg, and referred to the Eastern Front of World War I, where Russia fought against the German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Īfter 1914, the phrase was applied to World War I. Sometimes the Patriotic War of 1812 was also referred to as the Great Patriotic War ( Великая отечественная война) the phrase first appeared in 1844 and became popular on the eve of the centenary of the Patriotic War of 1812.
In Russian, the term отечественная война originally referred to a war on one's own territory ( otechestvo means "the fatherland"), as opposed to a campaign abroad ( заграничная война), and later was reinterpreted as a war for the fatherland, i.e. The term Patriotic War refers to the Russian resistance to the French invasion of Russia under Napoleon I, which became known as the Patriotic War of 1812. For some legal purposes, this period may be extended to to include the end of the Prague offensive. The Great Patriotic War ( Russian: Вели́кая Оте́чественная война́, romanized: Velikaya Otechestvennaya voyna) is a term used in Russia and some other former republics of the Soviet Union to describe the conflict fought during the period from 22 June 1941 to along the many fronts of the Eastern Front of World War II, primarily between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. During the 2019 Moscow Victory Day Parade. Veteran of the Soviet Army pays tribute on Victory Day in 2014 in Minsk under the cloak of the Soviet flag.
People in Saint Petersburg at the Immortal Regiment, carrying portraits of their ancestors who fought in the Great Patriotic War.
Term used in Russia and some other post-Soviet republics for the Eastern front in World War II
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